Summer in the hair: bright colored strands with their own hands

In summer you want to look brighter than usual, try something new and creative, and not only in terms of wardrobe. Someone is limited to buying a new dress or lipstick, and someone goes further and radically changes the hair color. Well, if successful. To avoid unnecessary tears, you can try experimenting on the hair with the mind and instead of a sharp color change, choose a temporary staining of the strands. Not even paint, but special colored crayons. If the end result does not like, you do not have to walk with unloved color for a long time - after washing your head, the pigment will disappear. Hair, despite the numerous horror stories on the Internet, will remain.

What are crayons for hair?

It should immediately be said that these are not those chalks that are sold in the department of stationery or shops for artists. There are craftsmen who paint their hair with them, and then resent that the hair for some reason looks like bog. Indeed, why would it? You do not paint your hair with felt-tip pens or gouache, you do not need art pastels . Although cheaper, and like the same thing. By no means.

Crayons for hair - a special tool designed for staining strands. They are more evenly applied to curls, do not crumble, have a softer structure. In quality products of well-known brands, vitamin complexes are present in the composition, aimed at combating dryness and brittleness.

Advantages and disadvantages

If you compare with paint, then crayons are still less traumatic, if they do not use every day. Colored strands can be worn for up to 8 hours, and then you should wash off the beauty with shampoo. To avoid overdrying, immediately after washing your head, apply an air conditioner or a moisturizing mask. Then the effect of bast can be avoided. But here, too, has its own nuances: if the hair is initially dry, you need to think about the possible consequences. Yet, whatever the manufacturers are adding to the composition and no matter how assured of its humanity, the crayons are heavily dried. This is an absolute minus.

It should be prepared for the fact that the colored strands in the hair, obtained with the help of chalks, get dirty. Not much, but none the less.

The undoubted advantage is that you can safely experiment with color: palettes are large and you can choose the right shade easily. It is also easy to apply it on your own hair and make colored strands of the width, length and intensity that you need.

Types of crayons

To date, only two kinds of crayons are represented on the market: in the form of a pencil and in the form of shadows.

The first differ more dense structure, are more difficultly put, but possess a wider palette of shades.

Crayons-shadows have a creamy structure, are easily applied, but are consumed more quickly, and the palette of shades, as a rule, is not rich. At a cost more expensive chalk-pencils.

If you are interested, what are less harmful to the hair, then both options are equivalent.

How to use

Even the latest untidy will be able to color the hair with crayons, because it does not require any special skills. All that is required for the procedure, in addition to the crayons themselves, is a towel and latex gloves so as not to stain clothing and hands.

First, comb the hair and twist the strands chosen for coloring, into small flagella. This will help to apply color evenly and avoid strange spotting.

Color the curls in one direction - from top to bottom.

To fix the color, sprinkle the colored strands with varnish or treat with each curl or iron, set to a gentle mode. In order not to overdry the hair, use a varnish.

Little stealth tricks

If you want a more intense shade, then before applying the chalk on your hair, you can moisten the curls with water. In addition, the intensity of the color depends on how many times you hold the chalk in strands, the more - the brighter the result.

On hair, suffering from dryness, any shade will turn out brighter because of their porous structure, it should be taken into account. However, if you are not satisfied with the result, you can comb out excess chalk with a comb.

In order not to spoil your hair, it is better to use such coloring not more often 1-2 times a week and choose crayons from famous producers (Hot Huez, Hair Chalk, for example).

How to wash off?

With proper application and fixation, colored strands retain their original appearance from 6 to 10 hours. Longer to wear them is undesirable, as well as sleeping with a hair color so colored. To get rid of coloring, you can simply wash your head with your usual shampoo. If the hair is light or you have stained them intensely, then several calls will be needed to completely get the color off.

After washing your head, be sure to use a moisturizing conditioner or mask.

Alternative

What to do if you want to experiment, but the hair is very dry or try scary? You can use an alternative method - colored strands on the clips. In online stores there are many, different lengths and colors. This, of course, is not an option for every day, but for a photo shoot or a party it will do. In addition, if you like the result, you can find a good specialist and build colored strands.